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It wasn’t long before evidence linking a police officer to stolen equipment at in Las Vegas school began to mount.
Two days after a pair of SLR cameras were reported missing at West Career and Technical Academy, 11945 W. Charleston Blvd., Robert John Griffin was in handcuffs.
Griffin, a sergeant with the Clark County School District Police Department, is jailed on two counts each of theft and burglary, and suspended without pay.
Staff reported the theft on Dec. 3, a Monday, police said.
The school had just inventoried the equipment the previous Friday. But then a packaged camera went missing, and another sitting out on a cart was replaced with an older model, police said.
Footage from the school’s surveillance system that night captured Griffin, 56, arriving for a campus check, police said.
A flashlight “is seen moving in the area of a storage closet” in the room from which the cameras were taken, police said. He returned the following afternoon.
Searching through his department-issued SUV, investigators found a barcode belonging to one of the cameras, police said. They found another in his house when they searched it.
Multiple electronic items at that school had previously disappeared, and police apparently found more stickers connected to some of those items in his vehicle, according to the report.
They also found multiple shipping receipts, including one associated with one of the cameras, and payday-loan documentation, the report said.
When Griffin was interviewed, he admitted to detectives that he’d taken the cameras and was selling them for $300, police said. One’s retail cost is about $975, and the other roughly $750.
Griffin, who is being held without bond at the Clark County Detention Center, is next scheduled in court on Jan. 19.